Legal Opinion
Causey v. Pan American World Airways, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 24, 1982No. Nos. 79-3341, 78-3761-78-3763PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
These suits arise out of an aircrash in Bali, Indonesia, on April 22, 1974, in which plaintiffs’ decedents and 104 other persons were killed. A jury found defendant Pan American World Airways, Inc. (Pan Am) negligent, and awarded damages in the amount of $300,000 to the Causey plaintiffs and $651,500 to the Ryder plaintiffs. The district court declined to reduce the verdicts to the limits imposed by the Warsaw Convention, October 12, 1929, 49 Stat. 3000 (1934), 137 L.N.T.S. (1929) (arts. 17 & 22).
Defendant-designated appellee Pan Am appeals from the trial court’s…
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3Cited by2 opinions
- In Re Aircrash in Bali, Indonesia on April 22, 1974 John P. Causey, Jr., Etc., Plaintiffs-Designated v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., Etc., Defendants-Designated Simone Ryder, Etc., Plaintiffs-Designated v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., Etc., Defendants-Designated Margaret G. Johns, Etc., Plaintiffs-Designated v. Pan American World Airways, Inc., Etc., Defendants-DesignatedCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
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